A Deep and Interpretable Learning Approach for Long-Term ECG Clinical Noise Classification.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: In Long-Term Monitoring (LTM), noise significantly impacts the quality of the electrocardiogram (ECG), posing challenges for accurate diagnosis and time-consuming analysis. The clinical severity of noise refers to the difficulty in interpreting the clinical content of the ECG, in contrast to the traditional approach based on quantitative severity. In a previous study, we trained Machine Learning (ML) algorithms using a data repository labeled according to the clinical severity. In this work, we explore Deep Learning (DL) models in the same database to design architectures that provide explainability of the decision making process.

Authors

  • Roberto Holgado-Cuadrado
    Department for Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, 28800, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. roberto.holgado@uah.es.
  • Carmen Plaza-Seco
    Department for Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, 28800, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
  • Lisandro Lovisolo
    Department for Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, 28800, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
  • Manuel Blanco-Velasco
    Department for Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, 28800, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.